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PYSEC-2026-869

OpenStack Compute (Nova)'s VMWare driver vulnerable to denial of service

Quick fix

PYSEC-2026-869 — nova: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

pip install --upgrade 'nova>=2014.1.3'

Details

The VMWare driver in OpenStack Compute (Nova) before 2014.1.3 allows remote authenticated users to bypass the quota limit and cause a denial of service (resource consumption) by putting the VM into the rescue state, suspending it, which puts into an ERROR state, and then deleting the image. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-2573.

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Affected packages

PyPI/nova
Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 2014.1.3
Fixpip install --upgrade 'nova>=2014.1.3'

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